Sorry for the top posting but I like to see the reply to the question I have already asked - I don't want to read it again or scroll through it to the reply.
Having got that off my chest ... Dianna I can only suggest that you take a systematic approach to solving this problem. Get some software that will allow you to ping - IPNetmonitor as suggested by Onno or my preference MacTCP Watcher. The latter is free, I'm not sure about the former. Assuming you are using a direct Ethernet connection, follow these steps and post the results here, then we can help further; 1. Open the TCPIP control panel and record the IP address (and mask), DNS or Name server address and router/gateway address. Then close the control panel. If you do not have any of these then your connection won't work. If any of them are wrong then the connection won't work or will be erratic at best. 2. Open the application that lets you ping and ping the router/gateway address. This should be (must be) the ADSL modem. If you have success here then the first leg of the journey is working. If not, you have a local connectivity problem that may be physical (cable not working, modem port broken or Mac Ethernet port broken) or configuration (TCPIP settings wrong). 3. If 2 works then try pinging the DNS or name server address. If this works then you should, in theory, be able to use name resolution as described by Onno in one of his replies ie. You can use names like www.iinet.net.au instead of the IP address. 4. Then try pinging further afield like the address Onno supplied or ping our DNS server here at Perth iX (203.188.144.1) or www.cisco.com (198.133.219.25). Regards Greg on 1/7/02 7:01 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have switched to ADSL, we remained with iinet because we wanted to > retain our email address which is in a number of hard copy > publications. What a mistake! > > The problem is that although the ADSL connection appears to be > successful to the people at iinet and the IP address etc are assigned > it does not work. Neither Netscape nor Eudora can find the server or > any other address tried. > > When iinet tried to 'ping' the address it did not work, ie it is a > dead connection. I have looked at the connection log and the ADSL > connection is recorded as well as this mornings dial up. > > Can anyone suggest what is wrong please. > > iinet want me to take my Mac in to them to fiddle with but I am not > keen to do this! > > Diana > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
